In January-July 2018 volume of foreign currencies traded on KASE increased by 20.3 % to KZT7.6 trln

/KASE, August 9, 2018/ –In January-July 2018, the volume of trading in foreign currencies spot market of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) made up KZT7,609.3 bn increasing by 20.3 %.against the corresponding period of 2017. The trading volume decreased by 6.3 %. compared to previous seven-month period (June-December) of 2017. Below is the table of indicators of KASE's foreign currency spot market in 2018 with the breakdown by currency pairs (in mln units of the first of the currency pair), and comparative data of the similar data of 2017. ------------------------------------------------------------ Trade volume ---------------------------------------- Year, -------- ------- ------- total, Month USD/KZT EUR/KZT RUB/KZT EUR/USD CNY/KZT bn KZT ----------- -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2018, I 3,798.9 2.9 586.8 0 26.4 1,244.8 2018, II 3,334.7 3.0 1,102.0 0 6.3 1,081.2 2018, III 2,363.1 2.0 1,095.8 0 10.3 765.2 2018, IV 4,367.3 7.8 1,539.5 26.0 15.0 1,447.5 2018, V 3,124.1 10.2 943.1 15.0 9.1 1,040.1 2018, VI 3,029.3 6.0 810.5 0.1 23.6 1,028.8 2018, VII 2,885.3 3.7 859.8 0 29.9 1,001.8 ----------- -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Total 22,902.6 35.5 6,937.5 41.1 120.5 7,609.3 ----------- -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2017, I–VII 19,667.6 38.4 6,982.1 0 65.9 6,325.4 trend, % +16.4 -7.4 -0.6 X +82.9 +20.3 ------------------------------------------------------------ The weighted average KZT/USD exchange rate calculated on all exchange deals for the period from January 3, 2018 to July 31, 2018, made KZT328.99 per US dollar. [2018-08-09]